Special Education MI Inservice Program

Projects

Practical professional-learning projects that connect the program's ideas to lesson design, classroom practice, and reflection.
Updated project principle: Choose projects that are useful to your current teaching context. The objective is meaningful professional learning and classroom application.

Reading and Reflection

Read a relevant professional text and create an action plan describing what you will apply, why it matters, and how you will evaluate the result.

Lesson Plan Development

Create a lesson from a clear learning objective and use one or more MI perspectives to provide meaningful options for engagement, representation, practice, or expression.

Cooperative Learning Plan

Design a group lesson with a clear task, roles, positive interdependence, individual accountability, success criteria, and reflection.

Cross-Age Tutoring Plan

Design a tutoring experience with preparation for tutors, clear learning targets for both age groups, structured interaction, and independent assessment.

Resource Evaluation

Review five current instructional resources. For each, identify the learning goal, strengths, limitations, accessibility considerations, and how you would adapt it.

Family Resource Guide

Curate trustworthy, current resources that families can use at home.

Teacher Resource Guide

Build a practical collection of professional resources for colleagues, organized by purpose.

Classroom Trial and Reflection

Try a strategy, collect appropriate evidence, and reflect on student participation and learning.

How to document a project

  1. State the learning or professional goal.
  2. Describe the resource or strategy selected.
  3. Explain how you used or adapted it.
  4. Include evidence of the work when appropriate.
  5. Reflect on the result and identify a next step.